"A lively overview" of this pre-internet mass-communication tool and "the entrepreneurs and evangelists, hucksters and opportunists" who flocked to it (Publishers Weekly).
Long before the Internet, another young technology was transforming the way we connect with the world. At the dawn of the twentieth century, radio grew from an obscure hobby into a mass medium with the power to reach millions of people.
With extensive knowledge, humor, and an eye for outsized characters forgotten by history, Anthony Rudel tells the story of the boisterous years when radio took its place in the nation's living room.
"Entertaining and informative." The Denver Post
"Rudel, with extensive professional radio experience, revels in the enterprising personalities who set up shop on this technological frontier. . . .[And] vividly re-creates the anything-goes atmosphere of the ether's early days." Booklist